----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Wade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of sslivesteam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 1:02 PM Subject: Re: lost foam casting (was Still there?)
> At 09:55 AM 5/2/04 -0600, you wrote: > >Ask and you may find that everyone will do it. > >-vance- > > Vance, > I think most automotive castings are done this way now, certainly > engines, manifolds, and such, and apparently it's a technique which makes > moulding for the home foundryman much easier as there are no flasks, > matchplates, coring, mulling, ramming up, etc, to be fooled with. Just > pack it in sand, poke vents in it, and pour away. But I don't intend to > become a home foundryman, and I did call our local bronze foundry, and even > with almost 40 years in the casting business he'd never even heard of lost > foam! That's why I have to find a source elsewhere. > > Regards, > Harry > >
